re: When did "exposing corruption" become "interfering with an election"??

When the corrupt bastards running the clown show got exposed and lost.

What corruption?

I don't think the emails really influenced the election.

Doesn't mean the Russians didn't try.

In the USA, we care about HOW damning information is collected. It is the principle behind due process of law.

An international criminal and fugitive from justice, Julian Assange, with an avowed vendetta against Hillary and Bill Clinton leaked hacked information with the express intention of embarrassing Hillary Clinton and hurting her campaign. Our intelligence agencies believe that the Russians gave that info to Assange as part of a campaign to destabilize our government and politics.

If anyone cannot see how this is a problem for the US, that person is without a clue. Doesn't matter if that info affected the outcome of the election or not. We should not allow the Russians or anyone else to interfere in our politics in such a direct way.

Of course Trump and the Trumpkins are paranoid about their lack of a popular mandate and want to make this Russian attack on our sovereignty about delegitmizing Trump's election. That isn't even germaine to this subject, imo. If Trump had any integrity, he would be leading the charge against the Russians now.

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When the Democrats are the ones hurt by it.

The MSM plays this game all the time, only they get leaked information from other sources against Republicans. No one bats an eye when CNN breaks a sex scandal.

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This is when you know you're totally lost.

Of course MSM plays against conservatives. They also do, maybe to a less extent against liberals.

But what they truly don't expose is the real stuff. They purposely distract people from the truth by playing on smaller truths that create political/racial/class ect division.

Here.we.go.

What is some of the real stuff you are referring to??

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End the bull shite faux confusion. It is embarrassing.

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By all means, end the faux confusion..and the faux outrage while you're at it. The Russians didn't "hack the election".

Why isn't your confusion and outrage directed at the corruption that was exposed. Let me guess..that wouldn't benefit you so you don't care.

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So if a burglar breaks into my house and discovers I'm a coke dealer, his crime is forgiven?

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Better analogy would be that your house keeper discovers a bunch of drugs and turns your arse in. Most of the information was from people that had access. The democrats just blamed it on a fictional burglar.

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So you think the timing and means of releasing the information was more important than the actual corruption exposed??

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It certainly played a factor, if it would have all been thrown out at once, early on, it wouldn't have had the same impact. In addition, it was beneficial to have some ammo left in the chest to combat allegations made against Trump along the way. I don't doubt for a second that the flow of releases was intentional, but at the end of the day, Hillary was a shitty, shitty candidate and her defeat was her own doing.

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Better analogy would be that your house keeper discovers a bunch of drugs and turns your arse in.

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So foreign state actors and/or independent hackers are more analogous to one's housekeeper than to a burglar?

That's some interesting thinking, son.